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In the article "Attention W!?#e Theater" it talked about a man in Colorado, who owns a pet shop, that broke the world record for most cockroach's in a single mouth for ten seconds. The record was 11 and he put 11 in his mouth and then after he had 11 in his mouth for 10 seconds he continued to add cockroaches  and eventually reached 16. The man did this as a publicity stunt to help his pet shop and because he was cocky and thought he could beat the previous record, around Halloween this year. He also remarked that next year he is planning on getting 20 into his mouth. In my opinion this guy is a total nut case because he thinks the putting 16 cockroaches into his mouth are totally okay. I don’t know about you but I know I would never put even 1 cockroach in my mouth. If you would like to view this article and other articles like this follow this website: http://www.ktcl.com/pages/goodman.html?page=4

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In the article "Wow! Heros exist!" from CNN video on http://www.ktcl.com/pages/Nerf.html I found this video very moving. It shows two brothers who are also firefighters and a woman whose car flipped and caught on fire after hitting a tree. The firefighters break the windshield and pull the women out and get one of the children out but the other child has his seatbelt on and can’t get out. Some one brings out a garden hose and another person brings out a pocket knife so they can cut the seatbelt. As soon as they get the second child out of the car they hear a loud bang and the fire gets bigger. I think this was some very quick thinking from the firefighters and the neighbors in the area around the crash. If it weren’t for them then we would be three people shorter then before.

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In the article "Put forth our best writing selves" by Douglas Hesse's point is that all social networking sites will be the salvation of writing in the U.S.

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In the article "The Remains of Doctor Bass" by Alan Bellows talks about a Body Farm near the University of Tennessee so the forensic science students could learn more about forensics and decomposition of the human body. People who donated their bodies to science sometimes go the Body Farm and the students throw the bodies into the woods and periodically check on them to see how they are decomposing and record it and check the body for insects and other items of disgusting-ness. Their first test was a pig that was roaming around on the land before they had any bodies to watch. They shot the pig and within the first hour of it dying a boss fly had laid its larva into the pig because it was dead and was now food. After a couple of weeks the pig was a stiff and there were wasps, flies and maggots all inside and outside of the pig. I won’t go into details about how the pig decomposed but it was really nasty. If you would like to read the article you can at http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#more-924

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After reading the article "This is not about YouTube" by David Warlick was kind of a funny article that talked about the problem with United Airlines

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In the article "This Would Be Really Wierd" by David Warlick it talks about how the work force is almost completely dominated by women, which has never happened before. When men loose the jobs women seem to recieve them all over the world.

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The article, "Our Googley advice to students", explains that at Google the employees are all a big team that gets along well. This means that everyone works together as a team and problem solves.This happens because there is so much freedom to say what they think about the projects. With this kind of workplace creativity is very abundant. With good communication skills everybody knows what's going on in the workplace. Since everyone is very friendly and open minded then there is more of a willingness to experiment. Another additional benefit to this environment is when there is a new employee to the workplace everyone will welcome them and teach them the ropes without feeling a sense of competition.

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In the article Keyboard vs. Pen by Virginia Beringer I agree with the results of that article. When writing on the computer I tend to be more lazy with spelling and grammar because I know that the computer will check it and I can go back and fix it when I'm done. While writing I am more careful especially when writing in pen because if I mess up then I have to restart. Since I usually don’t use a keyboard to write, I write I go pretty fast and don’t usually have a lot of mistakes.

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In the article "Footprints in the Digital Age" by Will Richardson, he talked about how his kids wouldn't be able to be Googled well. He's not saying they won't be able to use Google but that when they type there names into Google they won't find themselves like they wanted. This also relates to the Digital Footprint article that we read in class. Depending on how big your digital footprint is, is how much and how widley you will be known. An example would be when while I was reading this article I decided to Google myself and it came up with my science fair ranking in the 8th grade at my old middle school. He just talked about how if you want to be able to Google yourself, then you need to get involved.